1. Detective Chief Inspector Walter Dew was a British Metropolitan Police officer who was involved in the hunt for both Jack the Ripper and Dr Crippen.
14 Facts About Walter Dew
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Walter Dew's family moved to London when he was 10.
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Walter Dew was posted to the Metropolitan Police's X Division in June 1882.
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On 15 November 1886, Walter Dew married Kate Morris in Notting Hill.
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Early in 1887, Walter Dew was transferred to Commercial Street police station in H Division, where he was a detective constable in the Criminal Investigation Department during the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.
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In 1898 Walter Dew was promoted to Inspector, and was transferred to Scotland Yard.
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Walter Dew moved to T Division in Hammersmith in 1900, and in 1903 was promoted to Inspector First Class and moved to E Division, based at Bow Street.
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Walter Dew always was a bit of a philosopher, though he could not have helped being astounded to see me on board the boat.
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Walter Dew published his autobiography 'I Caught Crippen' in 1938.
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Walter Dew retired to Worthing, living at the Wee Hoose, 10 Beaumont Road, until his death in 1947.
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Walter Dew was buried at Durrington Cemetery in Worthing, Section 15, Row 5, Grave Space 46.
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The bungalow that Walter Dew retired in was renamed 'Walter Dew Cottage' in his honour, in 2005.
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Walter Dew is the inspiration for the central figure in Peter Lovesey's novel The False Inspector Walter Dew,.
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Walter Dew appears as a main character in Blackout Baby, a thriller by French writer Michel Moatti, published in 2014.